Attachment for carburetors



1,637,455 Aug 2, 19270 POWELL ATTACHMENT FOR CARBURETOR S Filed Dec. 29. 192.5

mean a... 2,1927. 1,637,455

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlCE.

CHARLES POWELL, PUEBLO, COLORADO.

A'JI'I'AOHMJEIN'I." FOR (:ABBUB-ZEEIJOBS. Application filed December; 1925. Serial No. 78371,

This invention aims to provide novel naled a shaft 20. The shaft is also jourmeans whereby a mixture of gas and air, naled in the opposite end of the casing 11, proceeding from a carburetor, will be thorand the last-specifiedend of the shaft is oughly mixed before it returns into the inlubricated by means of adope cup 21. The

a take manifold of the engine. I shaft 20 carries the rotor 17, hereinbefore It is within the province of the disclosure mentioned. The rotor may be made in any to improve generally and to enhance the desired way. It may consist of end plates utility of devices of that type to which the 22 connected by any desired number of invention appertains. blades 23, disposed radially or otherwise, 00

10 With the above and other objects in View with respect to theshaft 20. Any suitable which will appear as the description promeans may be provided for rotatin the ceeds, the invention resides in the combinashaft 20. For instance, it may be equipped tion and arrangement of parts and in the with a pulley 24 adapted to cooperate with details of construction hereinafter described the fan belt 25 of the engine.

15 and claimed, it, being understood that The numeral 26 indicates a loop-shaped changes in the precise embodiment of the conduit wherein the gasket 4 and the casing invention herein. disclosed, may be made 11 are interposed, thesaid conduit includin within the scope of what is claimed, without a pipe 27 communicating with one of the l departing from the spirit of the invention. pockets 10 and with, the casing 11 on one 7 2 In the drawings J side of the rotor 17, the loop-shaped conduit Figure 1 shows in elevation, a device conincluding a pipe 28 communicating with the structed in accordance with the-invention;. other of the pockets 10 and with the casing Figure 2'is a section on the line 22 of p 11 on the other side'of the rotor. "A check Figure 1; v valve 29 may be interposed-in the pipe 27.

25 Figure 3 is a plan of the gasket; In practical operation, when the rotor 17 Figure 4 is a sectional view showing the is turned, the, mixture is drawn through the gasket. pipe 27 from that side of the partition 8 The numeral 1 marks a carburetor. The which is'adjacent to the carburetor 1. The intake manifold of an internal combustion mixture is agitated thoroughly by the rotor :10 engine is shown at 2. The carburetor 1 and 17 and is forced out through the pipe 28 on the manifold 2 have flanges 3. A gasket 4 the opposite side of the partition 8, and,

is disposed between the flanges 3. The gasfrom the partition 8, the mixture proceeds.

ket 4 has openings 5., Securing elements 6 to the intake manifold 2.

pass through the openings 5. The securing What is claimed is:-

elements 6 are mounted in the flanges 3. In a device of the class described, a asket The gasket 4 has a central opening 7. A and means for mounting the gasket 1n the partition 8 extends across the opening 7. fuel intake line of an internal combustion The partition 8 is oil-set intermediate its engine, a loop-shaped conduit opening ends, as at 9, to form approximately semithrough the gasket at spaced points,apower- 4 circular pockets 10 on each side of the part driven rotary mixing device in the conduit,

9 of the partition 8. Y a and an imperforate partition disposed in The numeral 11 designates a casing made the gasket between said points, the partition up, if desired, of anupper member 12 and constituting means for deflecting the whole a lower member 14 having outstanding ribs fuel char e fromone side of the partition,

15 connected by bolts 16 or the like, the through tie conduit, to the mixer. and back casing being so built, in order that a rotor to the opposite side of the partition.

17, hereinafter described, may be mounted In testimony that I claim the foregoing conveniently in the casing 11. The members as my own, I have hereto aifixed my signa- 12 and 14 of the casing 11 have cooperating ture. 0 parts which form a bearing 18 lubricated y a dope cup 19. In the bearing 18 is jour- CHARLES POWELL. 

